An old house, a white bread geek, a japanese transvestite, a really tall lesbian, and at least one ghost. Ace shares a house with some interesting roommates. – 100% CG – Adult situations and artistic nudity. – Not suitable for children.

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I haven’t taken badwebcomics seriously since they cited another webcomic I follow as an example of how to do a particular thing *right*, that most of the people who LIKE that comic thought it did *not very well*.

(Granted, this was in criticism of another webcomic that does the same thing *absolutely horribly*. Taking a lesson from the comic mentioned in the previous paragraph, so they merely do it poorly, would be a big improvement.)

This is a whole website devoted to complaining and whining about webcomics the complainers and whiners aren’t happy about. We need this because it is obviously so much easier to piss and moan and type out those pisses and moans than it is to just stop reading? Isn’t that like a grown adult drinking grape juice every day, even though s/he doesn’t like grape juice, and complaining how much s/he doesn’t like it, instead of not drinking it?

Yep, I guess I do understand after all. Some people are just a$$holes.

WHOA!!! I must have missed something … I’m going to have to go back a few years worth of post and start a reread.
Yeah … that means Laugh at the goodly funny parts of the story line … get concerned when something builds to an exciting part … shed another tear or two on those part where a tug at the heart happens … (maybe again) yell at the screen when it looks like the good guy is walking into a predictable not so good situation … (innerly) cheer when the good guys Triumph (and I do not mean Rocky’s motorcycle) over an adversary; physical or not … and rehash over the other thoughts and emotions that came to me when I read those parts for the first time, so many moons ago.

Good Night, Andy. Please tell me you are NOT bothered by those comments from that link. You have toooo many fans out here who are waiting each week day (and quite a few of those week end) post of what will happen next in the Saga of Poor Ace (no Last Name) and Friends.
Please … Please … Please – Keep up the good work. And Good Luck!

You’ll always find people who won’t like what you do. That’s their business. I have one thing to say to you Andy. There’s 3 webcomics I’ve reread from start to present multiple times. and this is one of them.

Wow. They were pretty bloody rude, weren’t they? Just seemed to me like a LOT of unwarranted nit-picking from some people who probably couldn’t write or draw their way out of a wet paper bag. And comparing TMI to the Dreamland Chronicles? The only thing the two have in common is using a 3D modeling-thingy to produce your comics! Don’t get me wrong; I love BOTH comics, but I don’t compare them to each other!

Just took a glance over the list of comics that they pan (ie, every comic which actually appears on it – this is just a collection of comic strips people on there don’t like) and there’s more than a handful I read or have read, or am familiar with the names of because even if I don’t read them, they have a wildly devoted fanbase.

The reviews, from a quick glancing over at them, are very inconsistent. Some of them are blatantly obvious in merely being axes ground by people who proudly call themselves ‘total assholes’. Some of them, the reviewers claim to want to like the strip and might even have some reasonably useful criticism to offer – if a) it didn’t inevitable degenerate into ‘I want to like it but there’s so much WRONG with it that I HAVE to tell the artist how awful he/she/transitive gender construct of choice is’! and b) if it were asked for in the first place. Many of the criticisms cross from being about the material to speculations about the artists’ personal lives (or even more blatantly, stating outright what they think the artists are into, etc).

In short, it’s a troll/flamebait forum for trolls and flamers. The sort of thing that makes for amusing reading if you’re into that (I’m not) – and, frankly, might actually get you MORE readers on the grounds that the ‘reviews’ are so over the top that people might check out the strips to see if they’re ‘really that bad’ or just because hey, anything these guys don’t like might have some redeeming merit after all.

Tl;dr: Keep up the good work, Andy, and hoist a cold one on a hot day like today! But don’t let the flaming trolls add to the temperature. They ain’t worth it nohows.

I like the story you tell Andy. It is cool, and I never really know what to expect next. I skimmed the first couple posts, and concluded that the guys commenting on there a) know very little about how to do CGI work with poser or DAZ, b) have no clue about telling a story, and c) would probably call something dealing with the events to WW1 as “unrealistic.” I look forward to the next installment, and enjoy your comic.

That said, I think their criticism about slow pace is correct. Your story does have a slow pace…nowhere near as slow as, say, Girl Genius(seriously..1 day lasted 5 years!). However, slow pace is part of the story. All stories have points where their pace is slow. And you speed up the storytelling pace when it works for the story. While there are times where I want to know what is happening next, if you didn’t go at the pace you do, important stuff for the story would not be gotten to.

Andy,
After spending some of this afternoon looking at these guys’ criticism’s, i wouldnt put any stock in their words. Sure, your comic may not be shakespeare, but if thats what we wanted we’d go read Richard III or something. about 2/3 of what i read daily/weekly was on that site, and i really like those series. so to me, their words were nothing more than trolls being trolls and left it at that. hell, i even picked up a couple of new series, based on their whole ‘if you read this you will want to gouge out your eyes’ and after seeing that, i just had to check it out. one was Collar 6 – a bdsm fetish-themed series which is no more a serious take on BDSM tham TMI is a virutal tour of portland/Vancouver. banning their IP’s is probably the best way to handle these guys.

It’s a worthless, petty site. Looked at it once directed from Domic Deegan, which they panned thoroughly and I then realized that, much like movie reviews, most of the people that write the reviews are just spiteful douchebags who are incapable of any kind of creative effort of their own and feel the need to insult the works of everyone else. Your comic is freakin’ awesome, otherwise I wouldn’t come back and read it each day. Keep doing it how you want to do it, it’s the only right way.

I have done some reviewing of their ideas of “bad webcomics”. While they pretend it is not a troll web site they prove otherwise time after time. If we all liked the same things what boring creatures we would be. In his own time Shakespeare was panned by critics, that puts you in good company Andy. Really how much stack can you put in someone calling them self Misterflames. I will not say you are the beast out there but better than most that I have seen and laugh when their IP goes bounce of the ban. 🙂

Of course, it would be unwise to antagonize the site. I only get around 500 times the traffic they do. And I’ve only picked up around 150 new readers from their site since July, down from 0 for the previous entire 8 years. ;p

Just for laughs I looked up all the webcomics I follow on their site. Very quickly I spotted a pattern, and it was very consistent.

If they do not like the TYPE of comic an artist is TRYING to create, then obviously the artist did a really rotten job of creating it.

A critic worth listening to is capable of saying “I don’t like that type of thing, but this particular instance of it is really good for people who do.” Example: I don’t enjoy reading courtroom dramas, but Leon Uris’ “QB VII” is a really good courtroom drama. (Seriously. The example is real. If you like courtroom dramas but haven’t read “QB VII” you’re missing a treat.)

These clowns are more like “I don’t like this type of thing, so anyone who creates it is a talentless retard and probably some sort of pervert.”